Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 418 462 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.80% 11.76% 16.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.38% 39.66% 48.87%
Number of salaries quoted 319 327 276
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £38,250 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £78,300 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,089 1,165 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.13% 29.65% 33.62%
Number of salaries quoted 621 646 559
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -3 120 £55,000 +2.53% 192
Cambridgeshire +12 101 £40,000 -15.79% 135
Essex -2 82 £35,000 -32.37% 188
Bedfordshire +4 57 £31,000 -38.00% 108
Suffolk +10 39 £47,500 +43.94% 67
Norfolk -14 15 £70,000 +118.75% 62
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 55 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (10.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.87%) Confluence
4 6 (1.44%) WordPress
5 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.96%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (11.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (37.80%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (22.73%) Power Platform
3 79 (18.90%) Entra ID
4 70 (16.75%) AWS
5 31 (7.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 30 (7.18%) PowerApps
7 26 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (5.02%) Power Automate
8 21 (5.02%) SaaS
9 17 (4.07%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.83%) Azure AI
11 15 (3.59%) GitHub
12 14 (3.35%) OneDrive
12 14 (3.35%) Serverless
13 13 (3.11%) GCP
14 11 (2.63%) PaaS
15 10 (2.39%) IaaS
16 7 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.42%) Firewall
2 38 (9.09%) DHCP
3 37 (8.85%) DNS
4 29 (6.94%) VPN
5 28 (6.70%) TCP/IP
5 28 (6.70%) WAN
6 22 (5.26%) Internet
6 22 (5.26%) LAN
7 20 (4.78%) Wireless
8 14 (3.35%) SAN
8 14 (3.35%) VLAN
9 12 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.63%) WLAN
11 7 (1.67%) IP Telephony
12 5 (1.20%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.72%) Network Security
14 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.72%) VoIP
15 2 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.83%) Power BI
2 42 (10.05%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.31%) Tableau
4 16 (3.83%) MySQL
5 13 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.44%) Redis
8 5 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.72%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.48%) Big Data
11 2 (0.48%) Metadata
11 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.74%) Git
2 18 (4.31%) JIRA
3 7 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.48%) MSTest
5 2 (0.48%) NUnit
5 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.48%) TestNG
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 49 (11.72%) Finance
3 20 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.83%) Law
4 16 (3.83%) Retail
5 15 (3.59%) Automotive
6 12 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.39%) Legal
7 10 (2.39%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.91%) Back Office
9 7 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.44%) Publishing
11 5 (1.20%) Marketing
11 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.96%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (19.62%) Analyst
2 57 (13.64%) IT Support
3 48 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (9.81%) Developer
5 38 (9.09%) Junior
5 38 (9.09%) Support Analyst
6 37 (8.85%) Senior
7 33 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
7 33 (7.89%) Support Engineer
8 32 (7.66%) IT Engineer
8 32 (7.66%) Junior Analyst
9 30 (7.18%) Architect
10 23 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (5.02%) 2nd Line Support
12 20 (4.78%) 1st Line Support
13 19 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (4.31%) Administrator
14 18 (4.31%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.85%) .NET
2 23 (5.50%) CSS
3 19 (4.55%) React
4 13 (3.11%) jQuery
5 12 (2.87%) HTML
6 11 (2.63%) Vue
7 9 (2.15%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.15%) Web Services
8 7 (1.67%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.67%) YAML
9 6 (1.44%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.44%) REST
10 5 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (0.96%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.96%) Node.js
11 4 (0.96%) SignalR
12 3 (0.72%) Kafka
12 3 (0.72%) Playwright
13 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.59%) Data Centre
2 14 (3.35%) IoT
3 13 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.39%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.20%) Clustering
10 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.96%) iPad
11 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.72%) PKI
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.48%) CCTV
13 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 161 (38.52%) Windows
2 124 (29.67%) Windows Server
3 35 (8.37%) Windows 10
3 35 (8.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (5.50%) Mac OS
5 20 (4.78%) Linux
6 14 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (2.63%) Android
8 8 (1.91%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) VMS
10 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.24%) SUSE
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (19.62%) Customer Service
3 73 (17.46%) ITIL
4 68 (16.27%) Agile
5 67 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 50 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (11.96%) DevOps
9 48 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
10 45 (10.77%) Analytics
11 44 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (10.29%) CI/CD
13 37 (8.85%) Roadmaps
14 36 (8.61%) AI
15 34 (8.13%) Service Delivery
16 31 (7.42%) Process Improvement
17 27 (6.46%) Technology Roadmap
18 26 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 25 (5.98%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.27%) PowerShell
2 55 (13.16%) SQL
3 54 (12.92%) Python
4 49 (11.72%) C#
5 30 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.78%) PHP
7 14 (3.35%) Java
8 11 (2.63%) C++
9 8 (1.91%) R
10 7 (1.67%) Bash
10 7 (1.67%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.44%) VBScript
12 4 (0.96%) Bicep
12 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (16.03%) Azure Certification
2 62 (14.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (9.33%) Degree
4 35 (8.37%) DBS Check
5 22 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 21 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (4.78%) AWS Certification
8 19 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (4.07%) CCNA
9 17 (4.07%) Security Cleared
10 16 (3.83%) CompTIA CySA+
11 13 (3.11%) A+ Certification
11 13 (3.11%) SC Cleared
12 11 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (2.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.91%) MCP
14 8 (1.91%) MCSA
15 7 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 11 (2.63%) GDPR
2 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) GxP
6 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 128 (30.62%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.70%) Hyper-V
3 26 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.55%) Docker
4 19 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.96%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (17.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (4.31%) Terraform
3 14 (3.35%) SCCM
4 11 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.44%) Ansible
5 6 (1.44%) Backup Exec
6 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.96%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.48%) PaperCut
8 2 (0.48%) Puppet
8 2 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.24%) Grafana
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 271 (64.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.33%) VMware
3 17 (4.07%) Cisco
4 16 (3.83%) ForeScout
5 13 (3.11%) Apple
5 13 (3.11%) Fortinet
5 13 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.87%) Veeam
7 11 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.63%) SAP
8 10 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (2.15%) DevExpress
10 8 (1.91%) Google
10 8 (1.91%) HP
10 8 (1.91%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.67%) Dell
11 7 (1.67%) Oracle
12 6 (1.44%) Aruba
12 6 (1.44%) Remedy